Reducing Prejudice With Labels: Shared Group Memberships Attenuate Implicit Bias and Expand Implicit Group Boundaries

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 219-229

  Scroggins, W Anthony ^a   Mackie, Diane M ^a   Allen, Thomas J ^b   Sherman, Jeffrey W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

implicit bias; intergroup processes; intervention; shared group memberships

Indexed keywords

BLACK PERSON; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; PREJUDICE; PROCESS MODEL; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL BIAS; STUDENT;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREJUDICE; RACISM; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 84955488486     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167215621048     Document Type: Article

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